This is a list of famous and notable people from Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. The criteria of this list includes those persons who were born in the state of Uttar Pradesh and that part of the former United Provinces that now is part of the modern state of Uttar Pradesh. Though their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.
Deities and avatars
Aranath (birthplace: Hastinapur, Uttar Pradesh), 18th Teerthankar of Jainism
Krishna (birthplace: Mathura) deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism
Kunthunath (birthplace: Hastinapur, Uttar Pradesh), 17th Teerthankar of Jainism
Lakshmana (birthplace: Ayodhya), brother and close companion of Rama; a hero in the epic Ramayana
Neminath (birthplace: Mathura), 22nd Teerthanks of Jainism
Parashuram (birthplace: Ghazipur), was an avatar of Vishnu
Parsvanatha (birthplace: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh), was 23rd Tirthankara of Jainism
Rama (birthplace: Ayodhya), is a legendary or historical king of ancient India; in Hinduism, he is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu
Shantinath (birthplace: Hastinapur, Uttar Pradesh), 16th Teerthankar of Jainism
Shreyansnath (birthplace: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh), 11th Teerthankar of Jainism
Bhrigu (birthplace: Ballia), one of the seven great sages, the Saptarshis, one of the Prajapatis created by Brahma
Surdas (birthplace: Mathura), saint, poet and musician
Tulsidas (Ramayana: Chitrakoot), Awadhi poet and philosopher; wrote Rāmacaritamānasa ("The Lake of the Deeds of Rama"), an epic devoted to Lord Rama
Valmiki, harbinger-poet of Sanskrit literature; wrote Ramayana
Vyasa, central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions; authored Mahabharata
Yogis, Sufi poets and mystics
Amir Khusro, Sufi mystic, one of the iconic figures in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent
Bharat Bhushan, the only Padmashri recipient in yoga; founder President of Mokshayatan International Yogashram, Saharanpur
Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud, Gazi Miya of Bahraich
Kabir, poet and saint Varanasi
Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint, born in Budaun
Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogi and Guru who introduced Yoga in the West. Born in Gorakhpur in 1893.
Salim Chishti, Sufi saint of Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
Akhandanand, scholar of Vedanta, Bhakti and Bhagavata Purana in the 20th century, Varanasi
Devraha Baba, Yogi Allahabad
Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Vaishnava scholar and Sanskrit commentator on the Prasthanatrayi, Jaunpur.
Malik Mohammad Jayasi
Mira
Ramanand, founder of the Rāmānandī sect Prayag
Raskhan
Sant Ravidas, poet and saint, Varanasi
Shiv Dayal Singh, Guru Maharaj of Radhasoamis, Agra
Shriram Sharma Acharya, founder Gayatri Parivar, Anwal Kheda in the District of Agra
Surdas, blind Hindu poet, saint and musician born in Runkata near Agra
Swami Karpatri, teacher of Advaita, popularly known as Dharma Samrat, Gorakhpur
Swaminarayan, founder of the Swaminarayan sect, Gonda
Tulsidas, composer of the Ramcharitmanas
Bakht Khan, nominal commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Begum Hazrat Mahal, widow of the last Nawab of Awadh; Indian independence fighter in Indian Rebellion of 1857
Mangal Pandey, one of the earliest independence fighters of 1857; subject of Bollywood film Ballia
Maulvi Liaquat Ali, Indian independence fighter of 1857 from Allahabad; captured the Khusro Bagh in Allahabad and declared the independence of India
Rani Lakshmibai, Rani (Queen) of Jhansi
Rao Kadam Singh, freedom fighter; elected by his Gurjar clansmen as their leader to fight against the British forces during the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Later 19th and 20th centuries
Acharya Narendra Dev, socialist
Asaf Ali, independence fighter
Ashfaqullah Khan of Kakori, Indian independence fighter; member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association; close associate of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad
Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian independence fighter, member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
Chittu Pandey, independence fighter
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, independence fighter, journalist
Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian independence fighter and politician; Chief Minister of the United Provinces; Bharat Ratna recipient
Hasrat Mohani, independence fighter and poet
Laxmi Raman Acharya, freedom fighter accused of the Agra Conspiracy case
Mahavir Tyagi, independence fighter
Maulana Mohammad Ali, independence fighter
Maulana Shaukat Ali, independence fighter
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, independence fighter, Ghazipur
Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay of Pratapgarh, Indian Independence fighter; two time Member of Parliament
Purushottam Das Tandon, independence fighter
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Indian independence fighter and socialist
Raja Mahendra Pratap, King of Hathras Princely State, known as Aryan Peshwa
Rajendra Lahiri, independence fighter
Ram Manohar Lohia, socialist
Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian independence fighter and socialist
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, freedom fighter
Abdul Hamid, Ghazipur
Manoj Kumar Pandey
Naik Jadu Nath Singh
Yogendra Singh Yadav, of Orangabad, Bulandshaher; hero of Tiger Hill in Kargil war
Brigadier Mohammad Usman Azamgarh
Mahendra Nath Mulla
Kamlesh Kumari
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, eleventh Prime Minister of India
Bhagwan Das, philosopher and Freedom Fighter, Varanasi
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian independence movement; first Prime Minister of India
Lal Bahadur Shastri, freedom fighter, former Prime Minister; belonged to Varanasi and Allahabad
Rajrishi Purushottam Das Tandon, freedom fighter, Allahabad
Ravi Shankar, Sitar Maestro, Ghazipur
Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai Maestro, Varanasi
Amitabh Bachchan
Kishan Maharaj
Uday Shankar
Amitabh Bachchan, film actor
Bhagwati Charan Varma, Hindi author
Irfan Habib, historian
Josh Malihabadi, poet
Kishan Maharaj, tabla maestro
Obaid Siddiqui, science
Qurratulain Hyder, author
Rahul Sankrityayan
Ram Kinkar Upadhyay, scholar
Srilal Shukla, Hindi writer
Bekal Utsahi poet, writer
Giriraj Kishore writer
Gopaldas Neeraj, Hindi poet and lyricist
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, scholar of Unani medicine
Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India
K. P. Saxena, writer
Kanhai Chitrakar
Kapil Deva Dvivedi
Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu, hockey Olympian
Mohammed Shahid, ex-captain of Indian hockey team, Varanasi
Muzaffar Ali, film director
Prakash Singh
Vidya Niwas Mishra, writer
Yogiraj Bharat Bhushan, only Padmashri awardee yogi; founder director of Mokshayatan International Yogashram at Saharanpur
Majrooh Sultanpuri, lyricist
Naushad Ali, music composer
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
Ali Sardar Jafri, writer and poet
Amarkant
Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet
Mahadevi Verma, poet
Qurratulain Hyder, writer
Sri Lal Sukla
Rajendra Singh, water conservationist
Sandeep Pandey
Abhinn Shyam Gupta, badminton
Ashish Kumar, gymnastics
Jagbir Singh, hockey
Moraad Ali Khan, shooter
Syed Modi, badminton
Science and medicine
Afroz Ahmad, environmental scientist and administrator
Hari Om Srivastava, broadcast scientist
Harish-Chandra (Mehrotra), mathematician who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups
Lalji Singh, molecular biologist
P. K . Sethi, inventor of "Jaipur Foot"
Prem Chand Pandey, scientist, physicist, meteorologist, oceanographer
Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Ravindra Khattree, statistician who worked in statistical inference, multivariate analysis, experimental designs, biostatistics and quality control
Syed Ziaur Rahman, medical pharmacologist
Zahoor Qasim, oceanographer, leader of first Indian expedition to Antarctica
Gopal Swarup Pathak, former Vice-President of India
Hamid Ansari, current Vice-President of India
Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee awardee
Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Indira Gandhi, fourth Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Choudhary Charan Singh, fifth Prime Minister of India
Rajiv Gandhi, sixth prime minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, eighth Prime Minister of India
Chandra Shekhar, ninth Prime Minister of India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee. eleventh Prime Minister of India and Bharat Ratna awardee
Narendra Damodardas Modi, 14th and current Prime Minister of India
A R Kidwai, Governor of Haryana
Girish Chandra Saxena, former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir
K.M. Seth, former Governor of Chhattisgarh
Kalyan Singh, Governor of Rajasthan
Khurshid Alam Khan, former Governor of Karnataka
Mohammad Fazal, former Governor of Maharashtra
Mohammad Yunus Saleem, former Governor of Bihar
Ram Naresh Yadav, Governor of Madhya Pradesh
Syed Sibtey Razi, Governor of Jharkhand
Triloki Nath Chaturvedi, former CAG and former Governor of Karnataka
Virendra Verma, former Governor of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh
Kailas Nath Wanchoo, former Chief Justice of India
Kamal Narain Singh, former Chief Justice of India
Mirza Hameedullah Beg, former Chief Justice of India
Mohammad Hidayatullah, former Chief Justice of India
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak, former Chief Justice of India
V. N. Khare, former Chief Justice of India
Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari
Govind Ballabh Pant
Sampurnanand
Sucheta Kripalani
Chandra Bhanu Gupta
Choudhary Charan Singh
Tribhuvan Narain Singh
Kamalapati Tripathi
Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
Narayan Dutt Tiwari
Ram Naresh Yadav
Banarsi Das
Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Sripati Mishra
Vir Bahadur Singh
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Kalyan Singh
Ram Prakash Gupta
Rajnath Singh
Mayawati
Akhilesh Yadav
Govind Ballabh Pant
Jawaharlal Nehru
Motilal Nehru, Indian National Congress leader
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, former President of Indian National Congress
Munishwar Dutt Upadhyay
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Rai Rajeshwar Bali, education minister (1924–1928)
Sampurnanand
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
Akhilesh Das, Union Minister
Akhilesh Yadav
Amar Mani
Arif Mohammad Khan, political leader
Beni Prasad Verma, former minister and leader
Chaudhary Ajit Singh, political leader
Choudhary Charan Singh
Dinanath Bhaskar, political leader; former minister
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
Devendra Nath Dwivedi, Indian politician and Governor designate of Gujarat
Feroze Gandhi
Govind Ballabh Pant
Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
Indira Gandhi
Kalyan Singh, UP CM and Rajasthan Governor; BJP Vice President
K.C. Tyagi
Kailash Nath Katju, former Union Home Minister and lawyer
Kalpnath Rai
Kamal Nath, politician
Kamalapati Tripathi
Laxmi Raman Acharya
Mahendra Singh Tikait, Kisan leader
Manohar Lal (b. 1938), UP MLA, cabinet minister
Mohsina Kidwai
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Mayawati
Narayan Dutt Tiwari
Om Prakash Singh
Prakash Vir Shastri, member of Parliament and advocate of the Arya Samaj movement
Sanjay Singh, King of Amethi
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Raj Babbar, member of Parliament
Raj Narain
Raja Bhaiya
Rajeev Shukla, journalist and political leader
Rajendra Kumari Bajpai (1925–1999), former cabinet minister
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhian, first lady Minister of India
Ram Govind Chaudhary
Ram Manohar Lohia
Ram Naresh Yadav
Satyapal Singh Yadav, former union minister
Satyaveer Munna
Sheila Kaul
Shriprakash Jaiswal, union minister
Shyama Charan Gupta, politician, entrepreneur
Acharya Chatursen (1891–1960), Hindi writer
Acharya Kuber Nath Rai
Amitabh Thakur Hindi writer
Amritlal Nagar, Hindi writer
Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay, Hindi writer
Babu Gulabrai, Hindi writer
Baldev Upadhyaya, Hindi scholar and writer
Bhagwati Charan Verma, Hindi writer
Bharatendu Harishchandra, Hindi writer
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Hindi novelist
Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi writer
Kashi Nath Singh, Hindi wiriter
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, polyglot
Malik Muhammad Jayasi, author of Padmavat
Munshi Prem Chand, novelist
Rahi Masoom Raza, author of Topi Shukla and Adha Gaon
Rajendra Yadav, Hindi novelist
Ramchandra Shukla, Hindi writer and historian
Ravindra Prabhat,Hindi novelist
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan
Shrilal Shukla, writer of Raag Darbari
Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, author of books on sociology, religion, freedom struggle, peasant movement, and autobiography
Vibhuti Narain Rai Hindi writer
Vidya Niwas Mishra, Hindi scholar
Vinod Kumar Shukla, writer
Vishnu Sarma, author of Panchtantra
Viveki Rai
Yashpal, Hindi writer
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, author of books on Unani medicine
Ibne Safi, novelist of Jasoosi Duniya
Ismat Chugtai, writer
Mirza Hadi Ruswa, author of Umrao Jaan
Qurratulain Hyder, writer of Aag Ka Darya
Allan Sealy, novelist and writer
Attia Hosain, English author and journalist
Nayantara Sahgal, novelist and writer
Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A
Leema Dhar, novelist, poet and columnist
Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Lit Nibandh
Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay
Gopal Das Neeraj, Hindi poet
Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt'
Harikrishna Prasad Gupta Agrahari, poet
Harivansh Rai Bachchan, writer and poet
Jaishankar Prasad, one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi
Kaka Hathrasi, humorous poet
Kedarnath Singh
Mahadevi Varma, a major poet of the Chhayavaadi generation, a period of romanticism in modern Hindi poetry; won the Jnanpith award in 1982
Maithilisharan Gupt, modern Hindi poet
Shivmangal Singh Suman
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Sumitranandan Pant, one of the four major pillars of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
Parichay Das
Viveki Rai
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of Banaras Hindu University
Jagdish Gandhi, founder of the City Montessori School.
Abdul Hamid, four Grenadiers, Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient
Brigadier Mohammad Usman, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
K.M. Seth
Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah
Manoj Kumar Pandey, 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient
Yogendra Singh Yadav, 18th Grenadiers of the Indian Army, Param Vir Chakra recipient
S.K. Kaul, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)
Trevor Keelor IAF, Vir Chakra winner in Indo-Pak war of 1965
Denzil Keelor IAF, Air Marshall (Retd), Vir Chakra winner; Kirti Chakra recipient
Norman Anil Kumar Browne, Air Chief Marshal (current)
S.P. Tyagi, Air Chief Marshal (Retd)
Asaf Ali, first Indian Ambassador to the United States
Braj Kumar Nehru, Indian diplomat and Ambassador of India to the United States
Girija Shankar Bajpai, First Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs
Shilendra Kumar Singh, former Foreign Secretary of India; former Governor of Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician; sister of Jawaharlal Nehru
Afroz Ahmad, member of NCA, Government of India
Baleshwar Rai
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, bureaucrat
Dharma Vira, ICS, cabinet secretary and governor of West Bengal, Mysore
Isha Basant Joshi, first woman to be appointed an IAS officer
Vinod Rai, CAG
Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India
Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1917–2004), tabla player; music educator from Varanasi; Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1966)
Begum Akhtar, ghazal singer
Cliff Richard, English singer
Gopal Shankar Misra, vichitra veena player
Hari Prasad Chaurasia, bansuri player
Kishan Maharaj, tabla maestro
Lalmani Misra, Indian classical musician; dean and head of the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and his son
Naushad Ali, music director; awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema
Pandit Ravi Shankar, classical sitar player, awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999; has won three Grammy awards
Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, musician
Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai maestro, awarded the Bharat Ratna (2001)
Vikash Maharaj, Sarod maestro; recipient of the awarded highest civilian award, Yash Bharti, 2013–14
Abhijeet Bhattacharya, from Kanpur
Ankit Tiwari, from Kanpur
Anup Jalota, Ghazal and Bhajan singer
Girija Devi, Indian singer and represents the Banaras Gharana of singers
Harshit Saxena, singer
Kailash Kher, from Meerut
Kanika Kapoor, from Lucknow
Purshottam Das Jalota (1925–2011), ;hajan singer, Padma Shri (2004)
Sharafat Hussain Khan, from Atrauli
Shubha Mudgal, singer
Siddheshwari Devi, Hindustani singer from Banares, known as Maa (mother)
Talat Mahmood, ghazal singer
Vinit Singh, from Lucknow
Hard Kaur, from Kanpur
Baba Sehgal
Birju Maharaj, Kathak exponent
Lachhu Maharaj, Kathak exponent
Kapila Vatsyayan, scholar of Indian classical dance
Sitara Devi
Uday Shankar
Dhyan Chand, former international hockey player, awarded the Padma Bhushan
Zafar Iqbal, former international captain of the Indian hockey team and Chief coach of Indian hockey team
K. D. Singh, former national hockey player and Olympian
Mohammed Shahid, former international hockey player; member of the Indian team that won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; awarded Arjuna Award in 1980 and Padma Shri in 1986
Jagbir Singh, captain and member of National Hockey team in 1988 and 1992 Olympics; awarded Arjuna Award in 1990
Rinku Singh, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States
Dinesh Patel, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States
Arun Lal, former Test cricketer
Ashish Zaidi, cricketer
Obaid Kamal, cricketer
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, international cricketer
Chetan Chauhan, former Test cricketer
Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
Hemlata Kala, member of Indian women's cricket team
Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer
Mohammed Kaif, international cricketer
Mohammed Shami, international cricketer
Narendra Hirwani
Piyush Chawla
Praveen Kumar
R. P. Singh, Rae Bareli (U.P.), international cricketer
Rajinder Hans
Raman Lamba
Ravikant Shukla, U-19 captain
Rohan Gavaskar
Sudip Tyagi
Suresh Raina, international cricketer
Surinder Amarnath
Umesh Yadav, Deoria (U.P.), Indian cricketer
Abhinn Shyam Gupta, former national badminton champion
Syed Modi, former national badminton champion
Annu Raj Singh, shooter
Moraad Ali Khan, shooter
Ghaus Mohammad, tennis player, the first Indian to reach quarterfinal of The Championships, Wimbledon
Jaspal Rana, shooter
Aniruddha Bahal, investigative journalist
Arun Nehru, former minister and columnist
Dharamvir Bharati, former editor of Dharamyug magazine
Feroze Gandhi, managing editor of National Herald
Manikonda Chalapathi Rau, Indian journalist and an authority on Nehruvian thought
Narendra Mohan, Dainik Jagran
Pankaj Mishra, journalist
Parichay Das, writer, essayist, poet and editor of contemporary Bhojpuri poetry
Raghuvir Sahay, editor of Dinmaan
Ram Bahadur Rai, magazine editor
Saeed Naqvi, journalist and TV producer
Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain, Times of India and Navbharat Times
Surendra Pratap Singh, editor of Ravivar
Vinod Mehta, editor
Akbar Allahabadi, poet and satirist
K. P. Saxena
Kaak (b. 1940, Harish Chandra Shukla), cartoonist
Kaka Hathrasi, satirist
Raju Srivastava, actor and stand up comedian
Tuntun, comedian
Actors and actresses
Abhishek Bachchan
Aditya Srivastava, actor and voiceover artist, CID
Akshay Oberoi, actor
Ali Fazal,actor
Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood actor awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001
Anushka Sharma
Ashutosh Rana, Indian film actor
Chandrachur Singh, actor
Disha Patani, actress from Bareilly
Jaddanbai, actor
K.N. Singh, actor
Kadar Khan, actor
Marc Zuber, actor
Meenakshi Dixit, actress from Rae Bareli
Nargis, actress best known for her role in the Oscar-nominated film Mother India
Naseeruddin Shah, actor; born in Barabanki district of Lucknow division, U.P.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, actor, Gangs of Wasseypur
Nimmi, film actress in the 1950s
Rajpal Yadav
Ravi Kishan, Bhojpuri film actor
Saurabh Shukla, Bollywood actor
Shweta Tiwari, Indian television actress
Sonal Chauhan, Bollywood actress
Surinder Pal, actor
Sushant Singh, actor
Tanveer Zaidi, actor, educationist
Tuntun, comedy actress
Vedita Pratap Singh, model and actress
Zakir Hussain, Indian film actor
Zoya Afroz, Bollywood actress
Abhinav Kashyap, director
Abhishek Chaubey, director
Anurag Kashyap, director
Farhan Akhtar, director
Gajendra Singh, editor, director and producer
K. Asif, film director, film producer and screenwriter who worked on the Hindi epic motion picture Mughal-e-Azam
Kamal Amrohi, director
Prakash Mehra, director
Prasoon Pandey, director
Shaad Ali, film director
Tigmanshu Dhulia, director
Vishal Bhardwaj, Omkara director
Zoya Akhtar, director
Abhijeet Bhattacharya, singer
Ankit Tiwari
Anup Jalota
Baba Sehgal
Kavita Seth
Begum Akhtar
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Kabban Mirza
Kanika Kapoor
Rajkumari Dubey
Sunidhi Chauhan
Talat Mahmood
Vidup Agrahari
Ali Sardar Jafri
Anjaan
Indeevar
Javed Akhtar
Kaifi Azmi
Khumar Barabankvi
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Sameer
Shakeel Badayuni
Anand Milind
Naushad Ali
Shantanu Moitra
Vikash Maharaj, Indian sarod player and composer
Arvind Gaur
Nadira Babbar
Sushil Kumar Singh
Ravikant Nagaich
Javed Siddiqi, film script writer
K. P. Saxena, dialogue writer of Lagaan, Swades
S.Ali Raza
Wajahat Mirza
Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, fourth Nawab, founder of modern Lucknow
Wajid Ali Shah, poet, choreographer, the last King of Awadh
Raja Todar Mal, Finance Minister and one of the Navratnas of Akbar
Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Hindi poet and a Navratna of Akbar
Aditya Srivastava
Gajendra Singh, conceived the concept of the reality show in 1992 with Antakshari and Sa Re Ga Ma
Rahi Masoom Raza, dialogue writer of TV serial Ramayan
Raju Srivastav
Surendra Pal, famous for playing Dronacharaya in Mahabharat
Billy Arjan Singh, conservationist
Afroz Ahmad
Acharya Narendra Dev
Adya Prasad Pandey, Notable Economicst of Banaras Hindu University and Currently Vice Chancellor of Manipur University
Masud Husain Khan, eminent linguist; first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University; fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university in New Delhi
Mushirul Hasan, historian
Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System; President of the University of Houston; first Indian American to lead a major research university in the United States
Shah Syed Hasnain Baqai is an Islamic scholar, thinker, reformer, He is known for his inclusive and broadminded interpretation of Islam He was born in Safipur,
Gogi Saroj Pal
Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
Mukesh Singh Indian comic Artist
Gajendra Singh, CMD Saaibaba Telefilms; founder of Ganga Gauri Mahavidyalaya, Ramnagar, Baijabari, Azamgarh
K.P. Singh, president of DLF Universal Group
Shyama Charan Gupta, founder of Shyam Group
Subroto Roy, founder of Sahara India
Vinod Gupta, former CEO and chairman of InfoUSA; founder of Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Abu Salem
Daku Man Singh
Mukhtar Ansari, MLA
Munna Bajrangi
Nirbhay Gujjar
Phoolan Devi, minister
Lala Deen Dayal, Indian photographer
Tarun Khiwal (born 1967), Indian fashion and commercial photographer
Abdul Karim, Munshi to Queen Victoria
Begum Samru, historical figure
Deep Tyagi, pioneer of family planning programme in India
Jaichand of Kannauj, historical figure
Rahul Mishra (born 1979), fashion designer
Sampat Pal Devi, activist listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world
Sheila Dixit, CM of Delhi state
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